A camera on the Insight’s robotic arm snapped the photos on April 24 and 25, the 145th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. In local Mars time, the shots were taken starting around 5:30 a.m. and then again starting around 6:30 p.m. As a bonus, a camera under the lander’s deck also caught clouds drifting across the Martian sky at sunset.
NASA’s InSight lander used its Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) on the spacecraft’s robotic arm to image this sunrise on Mars on April 24, 2019, the 145th Martian day (or sol) of the mission. This was taken around 5:30 a.m. Mars local time.
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Thanks for the reblog 🙂
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Welcome
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I prefer the sunrise from my home 🙂
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Me too – I can breathe when I look at it 🙂
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lol good point!
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It does help 😂
How have you been?
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I answered that question this morning Si, water and loo haven’t appeared in the last few hours 🙂
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Yeah I saw – the trouble with getting comments top down lol
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Those are incredible images. Maybe we’ll be there in person one day😊
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It’s looking more likely. It’s a long way to go for a sunset shot 🙄
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